When I am being led of the Spirit and/or God speaks to me personally, 9.99 times out of 10, He gives me direction from the written Word and/or quotes the written Word when talking with/to me, respectively.
In fact, I think an argument can be made that the whole reason God has preserved a written oracle and canon for all time is because being "led by the Spirit" only is a disaster waiting to happen. Notice the quotes. Millions of supposedly "led by the Spirit" people have contradicted the written Word of God to their own destruction.
Some "led by the Spirit" folk even say the Holy Spirit led them to body slam and drop kick seekers in the face so that they could be healed.
It's all about balance. The other side of the scale is not secondary; it's essential to the mechanism. It doesn't work without both.
Prax is correct.
The 1st century church had plenty of written Word, enough to be saved and live a moral life of righteousness.
In Samuel's day, there was no open vision. The word of the Lord was precious, meaning rare. Most didn't have access to any written documents, only oral tradition.
And guess when Samuel's day was? At the end of the book of Judges, when every man did "that which was right in his own eyes".
And if many of the events of the Book of Judges don't shock and dismay you, then phew...I don't know what to say. Same with those who disregard the written Word for a feeling after of the Spirit only type mentality.
1 Timothy 4:13-15,
Quote:
13. Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14. Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15. Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
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Wonder what Timothy was commanded to read and give himself wholly to?
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